Trophic niche segregation in the Nilotic ichthyofauna of Lake Albert (Uganda, Africa)

Environmental Biology of Fishes

Volumn 74, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 247-260

  Campbell, Linda M ^a,d   Wandera, Sylvester B ^b   Thacker, Robert J ^c,d   Dixon, D George ^a   Hecky, Robert E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Fisheries Resources Research Institute   (Uganda)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

13C; 15N; Food webs; Nile perch; Stable isotopes

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LAKE ECOSYSTEM; NICHE PARTITIONING; TROPHIC STRUCTURE;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE ALBERT; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ALESTES; BAGRUS BAYAD; BRYCINUS NURSE; CENTROPOMIDAE; HYDROCYNUS FORSKAHLII; LATES; LATES NILOTICUS; MACROPHTHALMUS; OREOCHROMIS LEUCOSTICTUS; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; PISCES; TILAPIA; TILAPIA ZILLII;

EID: 28444499382     PISSN: 03781909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10641-005-3190-8     Document Type: Article

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